Katy Soar

“I don’t think the progressives beat us,” he added. “I think the progressives were told how to vote and I think what you saw was a coalition of Islamists and woke progressives that came together to dominate the constituency.”

Or, as some would call it Matt, democracy.

Green party wins Gorton and Denton byelection, pushing Labour to third place in blow to Keir Starmer Hannah Spencer elected as party’s first MP in northern England, as Labour sees a 25.3% drop in vote compared to 2024

These days, it's rare that I wake up feeling relieved about world politics. Today I did! Well-done Hannah Spencer. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Happy anniversary @paulftremlett.bsky.social we have entered the Bronze Age 🖤

It's coming!

👏👏👏 looks fantastic!

A selection of the approximately eleventy billion photos I've taken over the last few days 'for teaching purposes', and yet I know from long experience the only one which will actually appear in my powerpoint slides is the one with the dog in it

View across the campus of the American College of Greece, Athens, towards the cloudy hilltops

A (temporary) change of campus can be a very good thing

Is it wise to include instructions from the Demotic Magical Papyri on how to practice necromancy in a lecture to first years? Asking for... me 💀😄

Case in point. Here are my great-grandmother's home made remedies for coughs and indigestion #laudanum

Just have to find wood, iron, water, fire and stone and we can keep the dark from rising

Maybe a ploughed field and a wood?

Add an animal mask and I may think about it

Both the title, and entire content, of my hypothetical TED talk

Does this make me folk horror Jesus?

I hope you'rw enjoying it!

I love this!

🐐

Noooo!

I had not! Thank you!

Well, that optimism lasted less than a day

David Lynch, wearing headphones and saying 'okay, let's try that again, but this time good' into a megaphone

Welcome 2026

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting...

A final set of bookmarks from a few years ago, featuring the Ghost Bear of Hookland, the blue Owl of Hookland (also called the 'Holland Owl' by Hookland archeologist @kjsoar.bsky.social) a swan skull surrounded by fossilized sea urchins and a Hookland Crow
#BookmarkoftheDay 🖤🐾🤍

Photo of me wearing inflatable antlers with hoop toss hoops hanging from them

Our ways are the old ways.

Merry Christmas everyone.

To you too!

The Shortest Day by Susan Cooper And so the Shortest Day came and the year died And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world Came people singing, dancing, To drive the dark away. They lighted candles in the winter trees; They hung their homes with evergreen; They burned beseeching fires all night long To keep the year alive. And when the new year’s sunshine blazed awake They shouted, reveling. Through all the frosty ages you can hear them Echoing behind us—listen! All the long echoes, sing the same delight, This Shortest Day, As promise wakens in the sleeping land: They carol, feast, give thanks, And dearly love their friends, And hope for peace. And now so do we, here, now, This year and every year. Welcome, Yule!

Happy Solstice everyone

The Walker is abroad. And this night will be bad, and tomorrow will be beyond imagining.

Which fictional character would you spend Christmas with? Tag 3 friends.
I will change my opinion a million times after posting this, but I'm going with this guy. He could entertain me with Punch and Judy, teach me alchemy, and take me back and forth through time. Plus he has a little dog.

Tagging @amalexathorn.bsky.social @maybeitwasutah.bsky.social @paulftremlett.bsky.social